Creating queries for document searches

You can create and save queries for document searches using the View Documents application.

About this task

To create queries to find documents, complete the following steps:

Procedure

  1. Open the View Documents application by navigating to: Open Menu > Administration > View Documents.
  2. Enter a value in one or more of the filter fields. You can click Advanced Search to show additional fields that you can use in the document search.
    For example, to search for Web documents, type URL in the URL Type field. To search for file documents, type FILE in the URL Type field.
  3. Press Enter or click the Filter button to run the query.
  4. Save the query by clicking Save Query in the Search Toolbar.
    The Save Current Query dialog box appears.
  5. Type a name in the Query Name field. You can also type a description for the query.
    Note: Each saved query must have a unique name.
  6. Select Public? to make the query available to other users.
  7. Select Default? to make the query your default query.
  8. Click OK.
    The query is saved and added to the Query menu.

What to do next

Now, the you can run the saved query by selecting it from the View documents menu. You can also view details for a document by clicking on the twistie for the document. If you selected Default?, the next time you launch the application, the query is run.